F. Kagolo, M. Mulondo and Mary Karugaba
22 July 2008
Kampala — THE Democratic Party (DP) added their voice to the growing choir protesting the continued detention of Kabaka's ministers.
Addressing a press conference in Kampala yesterday, secretary general Lulume Bayiga said the arrest was likely to boomerang on the Government.
"After coming to power, President Yoweri Museveni began the race very well. But his end is likely to be of disgrace. He is destined to end at the dustbin of history," Bayiga told journalists.
Lulume said the extended detention of suspects contradicted the reason Museveni fought the Obote government.
"Justice has been trampled on. They have been denied access to their lawyers and their families. We have information that Nambooze is critically ill and that Sseggona fainted while he was being transferred to Kamwenge."
Party president John Ssebaana Kizito urged Museveni to address the nation on the matter.
"It is necessary that the commander in chief explains the whereabouts and the fate of the Mengo officials. We hold President Museveni accountable to whatever will happen to our dear people."
MPs from the Greater North Parliamentary Forum have also urged the Government to avoid intimidating Mengo and other Ugandans from expressing their views.
"We condemn categorically and without reservations the arrest of the Buganda officials. The Greater North is behind the people of Buganda and we pledge our support and demand that the rule of law reigns," chairman Felix Okot Ogong told journalists yesterday. "The arrests manifest the bad blood and suspicion that has characterised the relationship between Mengo and the central Government since the Land amendment Bill 2007 was mooted."
At another press conference held at Christ the King, Kampala, Nkobazambogo, an association of Baganda youth, threatened to demonstrate if the Government did not release the officials by tomorrow.
Chairperson Elijah Kyobe said the charges against the suspects were intended to silence the Baganda from agitating for the Kingdom's assets, which he said the Government was still holding.
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